SINCE I AM SWORN TO LIVE MY LIFE
Since I am sworn to live my life,
And not to keep an easy heart,
Some men may sit and drink apart,—
I bear a banner in the strife.
Some can take quiet thought to wife,—
I am all day at tierce and carte;
Since I am sworn to live my life
And not to keep an easy heart.
I follow gaily to the fife,
Leave wisdom bowed above a chart
And prudence brawling in the mart,
And dare misfortune to the knife,
Since I am sworn to live my life.
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